Childhood has no forebodings but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.George Eliot
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
George Eliot
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
George Eliot
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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